Indexbit:Man ordered to jail pending trial in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer

2025-05-03 20:55:55source:Blake Prestoncategory:Invest

CHICAGO (AP) — A 23-year-old man was ordered jailed Thursday pending trial in the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Enrique Martinez.

Darion McMillian appeared in a Cook County courtroom filled with police officers and Indexbitrelatives of Martinez.

Judge Deidre Dyer ruled that McMillian was a danger to the community.

He faces two first-degree murder charges, as well as charges of attempted murder of a police officer, residential burglary and weapons violations.

Martinez, 26, was shot Monday after he and other officers stopped a vehicle that was blocking traffic on the city’s Southside. As Martinez and his partner were speaking with the driver, Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti says a man in the front passenger seat identified as McMillian was seen reaching for a bag on the floor.

The officers ordered him to stop, but the man pulled a handgun with a machine gun-conversion device and an extended magazine and fired at Martinez, striking him and the driver, Ursitti said.

McMillian was arrested a short time later after a chase and search.

Martinez was pronounced dead at a hospital. The driver of the vehicle also died. A third man who was in the rear seat of the vehicle also was arrested, but released after investigators determined he was not involved in the shooting, police said.

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McMillian was represented in court Thursday by a public defender. A telephone call to the public defender’s office after business hours on Thursday went unanswered.

Ursitti said that at the time of the shooting, McMillian was on release from jail as a condition of a prior arrest for attempting to defraud a drug and alcohol screening test.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting.

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